Kinda waiting for an IPO from a company that just hunts bugs for bounties. It could be a massive (as in profits) business if properly organized and then eventually it could evolve into a full security services company. For the 1st decade (at least) the team would need to be small, maybe 20 people max. There are already people who focus on bounties by themselves for their paycheck so combining the right talent and doing nothing but finding security holes could COULD be very profitable and it would benefit all of us.

Hopefully I didn't just make myself look like a total fool only to find out in replies that such companies are already on the stock market...to be fair I've never looked into it but I'm certainly going to now. I know there are companies that bug hunt in other companies software, google does it, Microsoft does it but I don't think there is a company that JUST does that one thing.

Kinda waiting for an IPO from a company that just hunts bugs for bounties. It could be a massive business if properly organized.

Hopefully I didn't just make myself look like a total fool only to find out in replies that such companies are already on the stock market...to be fair I've never looked into it but I'm certainly going to now.

I've always assumed that there were at least some that do, but it seems like it wouldn't be the most stable or reliable business model.

So were these statistics for all the people who signed up for accounts? Or just for people who have successfully found bugs? I'd imagine the demographics could be quite different for the two cases.

Most people don't realize how hard this stuff can be. Reminds me of my freshman year of college with about 600 students vs. graduating class of about 150, about half of which were community college transfers during third year. People may sign up because it sounds cool, but then give up when they realize they're in over their head.

I have to say the image on the main page(of a beetle?) confused the hell out of me.

Oh. It does look like a rhino beetle. I'm glad I kept my yap shut when I thought it was a staghorn beetle.BTW, the pic of a sub family of scarab beetle was replaced with a boring cosplay pic and I'm off to rewatch that movie where scarabs are so hungry. IIRC "The Mummy."

But back to on topic. I'm not sure what I'd expect, but I think I expected stats like this. If you have a nine to five bughunting is a hobby and and sometimes you decide not to replant garlic where a cicada hawk has been burrowing, errh, I mean look for bugs on that complex program's often quite stupid implementations. From what I recall of who doesn't have a nine to five I'd expect a higher percent of recent college grads, but I'm pretty sure I'm thinking of the 90's or next decade, edit which would be the 10 years that were right after the 90sedit 2. added "look like ... beetle for clarity

I have to say the image on the main page(of a beetle?) confused the hell out of me.

I’ll be completely honest, on seeing the beetle next to that title and blurb at 4 in the morning the first thing that came to mind was that there was some college club of bug hunters catching rare insects to sell to fund some kind of panic room.

Kinda waiting for an IPO from a company that just hunts bugs for bounties. It could be a massive business if properly organized.

Hopefully I didn't just make myself look like a total fool only to find out in replies that such companies are already on the stock market...to be fair I've never looked into it but I'm certainly going to now.

I've always assumed that there were at least some that do, but it seems like it wouldn't be the most stable or reliable business model.

Apparently people hate the stock market and investing here except us based on the downvotes we got lol.

Yea, it would probably be quite unstable at least for a couple years but if you (as in the company) were to hire the right people but keep the team small I'd imagine over time you could transition that from just bug hunting but also into better security software as well.

I love playing the market, it's risky and that's probably why it's fun but there is money to be made even on stocks that are cheap and move up and down by just a few cents a day. Hell in the last 2 weeks I've made ALOT of money off amd by buying and selling anytime there is at least a 10 cent difference. Of course we are talking a large number of shares per trade and a ton of trades per day.

It's something I've been good at since high school. I can remember economics class...in the 1st week we learned a little about the market and had to pick a stock we wanted to pretend invest in. It would be a full term project that was half our grade. Whoever made the most money won a gift card. I started with I believe a $22 pretend investment in a company called Sycamore Systems and by the end of the term I had made over $6000. Ever since I've been completely intrigued by it.

Oh, you meant software bugs. *SHOCK* After seeing the picture, I was looking forward to an article on beetles, of which there are vast numbers and likely that many species are yet to be discovered. Beetles are cool.